Welcome to the Quotable Success Collections!

Quotable Success, like BeMoreCreative.com, encourages thinking, working, and living more creatively. Creativity is "the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (W. Plommer). To support this work, we earn a small affiliate commission. Please browse creatively!


P G Wodehouse: It was my...

P G Wodehouse: It was my...

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical...

More about this quote...

Christopher Morley: Read, every day,...

Christopher Morley: Read, every day,...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day,...

More about this quote...

Alex Haley: Either you deal...

Alex Haley: Either you deal...

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with...

More about this quote...

Alex Haley: In the bush,...

Alex Haley: In the bush,...

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.'

Source: Roots, 1977.
-- Alex Haley,...

More about this quote...

John Steinbeck: Men do change,...

John Steinbeck: Men do change,...

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy...

More about this quote...

Don Delillo: Hardship makes the...

Don Delillo: Hardship makes the...

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Source: James Axton, in The Names, ch. 12...

More about this quote...

Marquis de Sade: Man's natural character...

Marquis de Sade: Man's natural character...

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom...

More about this quote...

Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be...

More about this quote...

Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers...

More about this quote...

Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

More about this quote...

Tom Clancy: Nothing is as...

Tom Clancy: Nothing is as...

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not...

More about this quote...

Wilfrid Sheed: Every writer is...

Wilfrid Sheed: Every writer is...

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Source: On his parents; in NY...

More about this quote...

Wilfrid Sheed: Mr Michener, as...

Wilfrid Sheed: Mr Michener, as...

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to...

More about this quote...

Norman Douglas: A man can...

Norman Douglas: A man can...

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, an yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful...

More about this quote...

William Gilmore Simms: Neither praise or...

William Gilmore Simms: Neither praise or...

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to...

More about this quote...

Sloan Wilson: The hardest part...

Sloan Wilson: The hardest part...

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A father can only ride beside the bicycle or...

More about this quote...

John Fowles: The most important...

John Fowles: The most important...

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

More about this quote...

E M Forster: I have only...

E M Forster: I have only...

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me,...

More about this quote...

Toni Morrison: Her mind traveled...

Toni Morrison: Her mind traveled...

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the...

More about this quote...

Ted Turner: All my life...

Ted Turner: All my life...

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Source: In The...

More about this quote...

Page 1,212 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA